Low-cost integrable tuning-free converter for piezoelectric energy harvesting optimization

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1811-1819

  Lallart, Mickaël ^a   Inman, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Converters; energy conversion; piezoelectric devices; piezoelectric materials

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DEVICES; BUCK-BOOST; CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES; ELECTRICAL INTERFACE; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES;

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TORQUE CONVERTERS; TUNING;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 80052033029     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2010.2042462     Document Type: Article

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